Christopher Cross: You shouldn't be alone in the street so late at night. Kitty March: I was coming home from work.... Christopher Cross: You work this late? Kitty March: Mmm, hmmm. Christopher Cross: What do you do? Kitty March: Guess. Christopher Cross: You're an actress. Kitty March: Oh, you are clever!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. [Christopher] Smart the poet was here yesterday.... This ingenious writer is one of the most unfortunate of men--he has been t...wice confined in a mad house.... How great a pity so clever, so ingenious a man should be reduced to such shocking circumstances. He is extremely grave, and has still great wildness in his manner, looks and voice--'tis impossible to see him and to think of his works, without feeling the utmost pity and concern for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many m...aterials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old man with a beard, who said, "It is just as I feared!--... Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »